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Directors warn rise in number of child protection enquiries driven by preventive services cuts, in response to annual child in need figures
Ellesse Griffiths, 27, spent three days in hospital while two-week-old Teddy was subjected to a barrage of tests - despite health visitors witnessing the sucking that caused the tiny bruises.
One in four children in Scotland are referred to social care before their fifth birthday, and one in 17 children are investigated for suspected abuse, reveals new research.
Andy Bilson explains how his research demonstrates how existing protocols on bruising to pre-mobile infants risk exposing parents to damaging child protection action
Councils should stop automatically triggering section 47 enquiries in response to bruising in pre-mobile infants, government advisers have said.